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...three years old when we moved to 1118 Pauline Avenue, Columbus, Ohio. It was my folks' first house, purchased with a G.I. Bill down payment. It was 1956 and the baby boom had begun. Postwar demand - the Korean War, that is - was forcing contractors and developers to find newer, faster, and cheaper ways of building houses. Levittown was the prototype: huge clusters of small homes, quarter-acre plots and designs straight out of engineering catalogs...
...October Starting with Columbus Day and ending with Halloween, events pick up speed along with good selections and some savings on eveningwear and winter outerwear. Also watch for sales on appliances like dryers and ranges, ski equipment and furnaces...
...Battelle laboratories in Columbus, Ohio, researchers are working on those problems. They are devising painless alternatives to the hypodermic needle, fear of which causes many diabetics, for example, to delay necessary injections of insulin. One such device is the Mosquito, a small disk equipped with a tiny needle that penetrates only seven micrometers into the skin--not deep enough to impinge on nerve endings and cause pain. Attached to a patient's side, the disk allows mobility while it delivers the prescribed dose of drug evenly over a 24-hour period...
With no new novel in the offing, Harry addicts will perforce focus their anticipation during the coming year on the film version of the first book, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, directed by Chris Columbus and scheduled for release in November by Warner Bros. The studio, which shares a parent company with Time, has already begun stocking its franchise stores with Harry Potter merchandise. This is a sensitive matter, and all involved are hoping it proceeds serenely. Rowling knows product spin-offs have become essential to the marketing of blockbuster films for children, but she has expressed reservations...
...accurate voting process be put in place. It might be expensive and would probably include massive voter-education drives and an improved ballot design. But in whatever manner our vote is submitted, it must be accurately counted the first time and not be subject to interpretation. BILL WATT Columbus...